SHOOTING VIDEO FOOTAGE: BIOGRAPHY of rapper, Half Ounce, goes viral after being shot dead and killed in a drive-by shooting in Koreatown, Los Angeles last night around midnight

Inglewood rapper Half Ounce killed in a drive-by shooting in Koreatown, Los Angeles last night around midnight. (Read More Here).

The shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. Monday in the 700 block South New Hampshire Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers responded to numerous calls of shots fired and found the victim lying in a planter at a nearby apartment building.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Further details about the circumstances leading up to the shooting were not immediately disclosed.

An Inglewood rapper died after he was shot multiple times by someone inside a dark SUV in Koreatown late Monday night, according to reports.

KTTV-TV Channel 11 identified the victim as Half Ounce, who had released an album in May called “Gang Bangin.”

Half Ounce is the third rapper shot and killed in Los Angeles County in less than a month. On Sept. 12, rapper PnB Rock, whose real name was Rakim Allen, was fatally shot during a botched robbery for the 30-year-old’s jewelry while he was having lunch at Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles.

On Monday, police were called at about 11:30 p.m. after reports of shots being fired in the 700 block of South New Hampshire Avenue, where a man was heard screaming. When officers arrived at the scene, they found the victim in front of an apartment complex with gunshot wounds, according to the LAPD.

The man was found in a planter, OnScene.TV reported. The gunman, described as a Black male wearing dark clothing, is believed to have fled south in the SUV, police said.

The victim has not been officially identified, but family members at the scene told Eyewitness News he was a local rapper who also worked for UPS. Rapper Half Ounce was a father to three children, between the ages of 8 years and 9 months, and his wife was expecting another.

The shooter fled the scene in a possible dark SUV.

Anybody with information is urged to contact authorities at (212) 382-9470.